Young players and the second-season problem

The first season nobody has a plan for you. The second season everybody does.

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Young players and the second-season problem

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A brilliant debut year is not evidence of a great career. It is evidence that the analysts have not caught up yet.

How the plans arrive

Opposition analysts spend a winter watching every dismissal and every scoring shot. By the following spring the field is set two yards squarer and the ball is a fraction wider.

The players who survive it

The ones who last are not necessarily the most talented. They are the ones who add a second scoring option before they need it, rather than after.

In your first year you play the bowler. In your second year you play the plan.

A batting coach, on the sophomore slump

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